ABSTRACT
In his book on narcissism the author said that the core of narcissism lay in an unconscious refusal of life. The narcissistic person may appear stiff upper lip and stalwart, but inside he is a jelly. There is a sense of futility and hopelessness. There is a similarity between this state and what Fairbairn called the schizoid state. When someone's psyche is a gelatinous mass their structural form is moulded by objects in the environment. The psyche is made up of a jelly and a hard crustaceous god-like substance. God, on the other hand, is embodied in "pedestal figures". Resolution of narcissism requires elucidation and interpretation of both aspects. The "primitive hatred is of all those elements in the personality that obstruct freedom". The only way in which the individual can become free is through inner creative emotional acts of which the generation of thoughts or thinking is a core component.
